Analog film photography and cameras

Perfect, thanks!

Sorry to hear about another dud GR1.

I've no experience of the ink-leak problem but we had a 'fleet' of GR1s up until a couple of years ago for teaching photography and they were too unreliable. Even the GRDs had more than their fair share of issues.

We always went back to the Olympus Mju2s – such great tools.

...and Nikon D700s with prime lenses.

That's the one

Mju2's are brilliant, there's just something about about the gr1 that I love.

I'm bringing the mju2 snowboarding this year though, hope to get some decent shots and hope it won't overexpose.

Ask for more than that at first I reckon.

Ended up getting £50 back, I now feel relatively pleased with the deal.

I've also noticed that the longer the camera remains on for, the less visible the ink is which is also a bit of a win.

What books?

In a spree of drunk shopping today I have come home with Tom Wood's "Men and Women". Very nice indeed.

What other books do the forum rate highly? Instructional books don't count.

Some classics I own and would recommend, if you don't already have them:

The Americans - Robert frank

William Egglestons Guide

Friedlander - galassi

Uncommon places - Stephen shore

Gary winogrand - rubinfien

I seem to have a lot of Wolfgang Tillmans books. bit of a fan.
there is a Fred Herzog book I look at often, it reminds me of the time I lived in Vancouver.
I have a weakness for Nan Goldin and William Eggleston.
often buy books after seeing work in exhibitions.
also much like the Szarkowski book "Looking at Photographs: 100 pictures from the collection of MoMA". if that isn't too instructional.

Three books that I enjoyed this year, none are your classic photobook:

• Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment
  
• Etore Sottsass, The Curious Mr Sottsass
  
• Alec Soth, Ping Pong Conversations
  

If I alter the DX code on some film to shoot as 800 instead of 400 does this mean the film processing machine will read it and process it as that too?

Was looking at the Tillmans stuff yesterday as well. I didn't rate him when he was doing Kate Moss (as it were) but read an interview with him (in Vogue?) and was impressed at the amount of work he puts into getting to know his subjects, and his low tech kit.

If I alter the DX code on some film to shoot as 800 instead of 400 does this mean the film processing machine will read it and process it as that too?

No, c41 is a standardised process - the development times are all the same.

A proper lab could push or pull for you though

Cheers, I need to find a proper lab to use, especially now that I've got some B&W to do.

Will ag-photo do push/pull processing? Was thinking of pushing some portra 400 to 3200 seeing as it seems to be so forgiving.

Would really be interested in seing what that will look like!

Fucking mental, I imagine.

Will ag-photo do push/pull processing? Was thinking of pushing some portra 400 to 3200 seeing as it seems to be so forgiving.

Yup, they pushed some 400TX to 800 with great results. Not sure about 400 to 3200 though. I've never had good results with pushing any film that far. The enamel just seems to wash off, then again, I did that myself many moons ago. AG is highly recommended.

Fucking mental, I imagine.

..and a tad grainy, I guess.

But seriously, I'd like to see whether pushing would add massive grain, and also drive colours against the wall, or just add a lot of grain..
Never pushed C41 IIRC - or just once, one stop, with cheap film (it looked shit).

Someone has already done it and to good effect!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/phloodpants/sets/72157626086079045/

Cool, thanks for the link!
So... shoot rather bold, graphic pictures, and maybe avoid a lot of really dark space in the image?
Looks better than I thought.

Luciano Noble (Contax T2 by the way, for all the fanboys ;-)

That's Shelbie Dimond, also shot by Luciano Noble, on some 6x6 Mamiya apparently.

There's an interview with her here, if you're interested,
and a lot more really great portraits from L.N. over here.

Wow, such portrait. Very beautiful.

Really nice stuff.

There's an interview with her here, if you're interested,
and a lot more really great portraits from L.N. over here.

Her work has a similar work to this Photographer I like.
I get really jealous of people who have a seemingly endless creative explosion in every picture they create. Something eternally youthful about them and their lives. Like their mind or soul or whatever, hasn't been touched by the indifferent side to life.
It's why I like her reply to the nudity part. it can be used to portray either good or bad. (depends how you look at it) overly sexualised or brutally honest. I know around a zillion Photographers try to emote that, but the majority just come off as perverted regardless of their sex. Like they're doing it for a certain benefit as opposed to an exploration.
Then again, the fuck do I know, all pictures I take are exploitative.
Maybe I should move to the country....

Really nice stuff.

Oh, forgot to mention - there's an interview with him at the photographic journal, too, here.